ISLAMABAD - In Turkey, at least 33 people were killed in Van province today when they were hit by an avalanche while searching for people hit by an earlier snow slip in the area. According to Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Authority, the incident took place in Bahcesaray district where five ...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations and its humanitarian agencies are supporting Pakistan government-led response efforts to the heavy rain, snowfall and avalanches that struck parts of Balochistan, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan, causing heavy loss of life and property, a UN spokesman said ...

ISLAMABAD -Death toll rises drastically across Pakistan from heavy snowfall and avalanches. Unprecedented snowfall, avalanches, and landslides have resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people all over Pakistan, several media outlets have confirmed. Most of the weather-related deaths occurred ...

ISLAMABAD - Atleast 67 people were killed and others were missing after avalanches in Pakistan Kashmir over the last 24 hours, senior government officials said on Tuesday. In neighboring India, at least 10 people were killed after several avalanches hit the northern-part of Indian-administered ...

Uttarkashi - Indian Paramilitary expedition team hit by a massive avalanche, casualties reported by Indian media. Atleast two soldiers were hit while one soldier of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) died and another seriously injured after expedition team of mountaineers was hit by a massive ...

Six mountaineers who were trapped by an avalanche on a mountain in northern parts of the country have been rescued. An army helicopter reached the four Italian and two Pakistani climbers in a remote area of the Ghizer district in Gilgit-Baltistan. They were scaling a 5,000m high peak in the Hindu ...

SRINAGAR - An avalanche has hit Indian Army Post in the Occupied Kashmir. As per the media report, An Indian soldier was killed and another injured in an avalanche in the forward area of Jammu and Kashmir`s Poonch district on Thursday. Police sources said the avalanche hit an Army post around 4 ...

ISLAMABAD - One member of a three-man mountaineering expedition has died in an avalanche on a more than 7,000-metre high peak in Pakistan, officials said on Saturday. Alpine Club of Pakistan secretary Karrar Haidri said Austrian mountaineer Christian Huber was killed when an avalanche hit the ...

Rising global temperatures are altering the triggering of avalanches, leading to disasters and serious consequences in mountain areas that can severely affect socio-economic development and the destruction of traffic infrastructure, according to results of a study issued by University of Geneva on ...

SRINAGAR - Three soldiers were killed and another injured after an avalanche in the Machil sector in north Kashmir's Kupwara district today. The avalanche hit an army post of 21 Rajput around 4:30 pm at Sona Pandi Gali in Machil, according to reports. "In an unfortunate incident of avalanche in ...